TAX EVASION ALLEGED
ROOSEVELT AND WIFE INVESTIGATION DECLINED WASHINGTON, July 11. A member of the House of Representatives made a charge before the committee of Congress investigating the evasion of taxes, that Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, had avoided her income tax payments by arranging to have the income which she derived from wireless broadcasts paid directly to charities. He also reiterated the charge that President Roosevelt was evading payment of taxes by means of losses on a large estate which he charged off as a farm. He also mentioned Mr. Roosevelt’s mother, and son-in-law, and sons of Mr. Henry Morgenthau, junior, the Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. H. L. Hopkins, the Federal emergency relief administrator, and Mr. John L. Lewis, president of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, whose incomes he urged should be investigated.
The committee refused to order an investigation into President Roosevelt’s income. It is intimated that the President may make a statement in refutation of the suggestion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19374, 12 July 1937, Page 5
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163TAX EVASION ALLEGED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19374, 12 July 1937, Page 5
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